Storms rage across the Sharani desert. Those clansmen who survived the devastation in the Oasis take refuge in the Roterralar Warren. But just as they grew to understand in the Oasis, maybe they weren’t meant to become together at all. Change is in the wind. The Orinai are arriving.

Gavin challenges to find his place inside the clans while Beryl starts to identify that what he did in phoning the Orinai will have disastrous consequences. In an effort to atone for the, he models in motion events that will result in the end of safety and, possibly, the destruction of the Rahuli people.

After waking from weeks of troubled slumber, Lhaurel struggles using what she had to do in the Oasis and the burgeoning powers within her. As everything she keeps dear starts to break apart again she is plagued with the main one, most important issue. Can she save her people once again or is definitely she unwilling to pay that price?